Exploring the Truth One Story at a Time 

 
 
Past Productions

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

July 21-23 at 7pm and July 24th at 2pm

All Summer in a Day, a 1 hour newly devised musical based on Ray Bradbury's short story. All Summer in a Day is set in a classroom on Venus, where the rain never ends. The children of rocket people who set up civilization on Venus, eagerly await the sun, which appears for two hours every seven years. 

Our Vision

OHTC is a small professional theatre company whose focus is on devising stories from source material. We hope to be an open and brave laboratory for experimentation, a place where failures and successes are celebrated equally.

We are housed within the McGlothlin Center for the Arts at Emory & Henry College and perform during the summer months. Our collaborators are a mixture of Emory & Henry students and professional, experienced educators and artists who are passionate about the future of theatre. 

Our Mission

 Only Human Theatre Collective got its name from Patrice Foster, one of the founders' teaching experiences in the classroom. During an Acting 1 class, a student was having trouble understanding and then committing to a moment in a short, neutral scene. The line was “I’m only human!” The student and her partner were stuck on what that meant and how to play it truthfully. After further exploration, the professor instructed the student to repeat the line over and over in whispered breath until it was time to deliver the line, and then she would shout it at, around, or for her partner. When the student committed to the exercise, the line, the scene, the story came to life. She and her partner were truly living in the moment. The partner had no choice but to stay with her and commit. Once the scene ended the class erupted in celebration. The students had a breakthrough, they had a moment of growth, a moment of discovery and they were so proud of themselves. Ideally, in that moment, they realized they were only human, that they were flawed and scared and did it anyway. That, they as humans, have such capacity for greatness and tragedy.

OHTC strives to unite our community through compelling, truthful story telling. We believe in devising a new world, one that we wish to live in, one that values all peoples, especially humans of many abilities and disabilities; races, ethnicities, and nationalities; gender identities; religions; classes; and sexual orientations. We aim to change the local community through devised theatrical productions. We believe another more humane world is possible, and we invite all of our audiences and creatives to meet us there. After all, we’re Only Human.